Double Jeopardy (1999)

Davenia McFadden: Evelyn

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Quotes 

• [Evelyn watches Libby jog in the rain within the prison fences] 

  Evelyn Lake : [Evelyn shouts]  I got to hand it to you, honey. It's just sheer hate driving you on.

• [Libby takes advice from Margaret and Evelyn on what to tell the parole board] 

  Libby Parsons : I feel like I've grown these past six years.

  Margaret Skolowski : 'Grown'? Honey, they don't want to hear that you've turned into some kind of tree, okay? So you just repeat after me, 'If I could trade places with my husband, I would.'

  Libby Parsons : [Libby rolls her eyes]  Ugh. 'If I could trade places with my husband, I would.'

  Evelyn Lake : That's good. Now, throw in a lot of that born-again-Jesus stuff. They like that.

• [Evelyn and the other inmates bring Libby a birthday cake for her son Matty's birthday, as Libby makes a wish and blows out the candles] 

  Libby Parsons : You know, Evelyn, I read that even if a child is separated from its mother the day it's born, it never forgets her voice. Think that's true?

  Evelyn Lake : [Evelyn smiles]  'Course I do.

• [Libby meets the female inmates Margaret and Evelyn] 

  Margaret Skolowski : Who's this?

  Evelyn Lake : Rich-bitch from Whidbey island. She ain't gonna make it.

  Margaret Skolowski : What do you think, a year?

  Evelyn Lake : Five cartons says she offs herself inside of six months.

  Margaret Skolowski : Deal.

  Libby Parsons : Get away from me.

  Evelyn Lake : Hey, take it easy. We're your new best friends.

  Margaret Skolowski : Heard you did your husband. He probably deserved it.

  Evelyn Lake : Mine did.

  [Margaret and Evelyn walk off smiling] 

• [Evelyn and Margaret give Libby some encouragement to find her son] 

  Evelyn Lake : Heard you're tryin' to reach your friend, the one with your boy.

  Libby Parsons : Yeah, I can't find 'em. They disappeared.

  Margaret Skolowski : Oh, hon - If you could disappear that easy, believe you me, I wouldn't be here right now.

  Evelyn Lake : [Evelyn chuckles]  Me, either.

  Margaret Skolowski : Think. Use your head. There's gotta be a way to track him down.